8:36 PM,
Feb. 5, 2014

A photo outside one of the Astramed clinics in the Bronx where authorities said oxycodone was being illegally sold.

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A massive Bronx-based oxycodone ring that authorities said put millions of oxycodone pills on the streets after doctors wrote thousands of illicit prescriptions was broken up this week when nearly two-dozen people were arrested, including one from Mount Vernon and another from Peekskill.

Members of the ring, which included doctors, drug traffickers and medical clinic employees, sold oxycodone to scores of people daily, many of whom would line up outside two clinics in the Bronx, "clamoring to see one of the doctors at the clinic," authorities said.